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1.		Making an embedded Linux computer (hforsten.com)
		243 points by thomasjames on July 13, 2014 \| 21 comments
2.		How to talk to a 36-year-old space probe with GNU Radio, a USRP and a big dish (jmalsbury.com)
		226 points by liotier on July 13, 2014 \| 18 comments
3.		Hardware Case Study: Why Lockitron Has Taken So Long To Ship (techcrunch.com)
		198 points by Jarred on July 13, 2014 \| 127 comments
4.		Rust for functional programmers (poss.name)
		199 points by valarauca1 on July 13, 2014 \| 52 comments
5.		EA is File Snooping with the Origin Client (wccftech.com)
		191 points by kmfrk on July 13, 2014 \| 120 comments
6.		Popcorntime is leaving GitHub (popcorntime.io)
		183 points by lalmachado on July 13, 2014 \| 123 comments
7.		Clojure Grimoire: an up-to-date ClojureDocs alternative (arrdem.com)
		163 points by jgrodziski on July 13, 2014 \| 21 comments
8.		Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows (bvckup2.com)
		145 points by latitude on July 13, 2014 \| 102 comments
9.		A Uniﬁed Theory of Garbage Collection [pdf] (virginia.edu)
		135 points by adamnemecek on July 13, 2014 \| 15 comments
10.		Program Synthesis Demo (research.microsoft.com)
		126 points by Houshalter on July 13, 2014 \| 19 comments
11.		Please.js – Random Pleasing Colors (checkman.io)
		120 points by alixaxel on July 13, 2014 \| 31 comments
12.		Edward Snowden will speak at HOPE X on Saturday (hope.net)
		119 points by hawkharris on July 13, 2014 \| 25 comments
13.		Too Much Power For One Man (drewdavismedia.com)
		112 points by loupereira on July 13, 2014 \| 86 comments
14.		Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed (nytimes.com)
		110 points by smacktoward on July 13, 2014 \| 79 comments
15.		Rust for C++ programmers – Part 8: destructuring (featherweightmusings.blogspot.com)
		108 points by adamnemecek on July 13, 2014 \| 13 comments
16.		British rocket scientist says he's designed a better saucepan (latimes.com)
		95 points by rk0567 on July 13, 2014 \| 80 comments
17.		A Wave-Tracking Experiment (npr.org)
		103 points by srikar on July 13, 2014 \| 20 comments
18.		Usable Live Programming (research.microsoft.com)
		82 points by ryanbrush on July 13, 2014 \| 25 comments
19.		Learning “computer code” will be offered in French primary schools (lemonde.fr)
		98 points by Furzel on July 13, 2014 \| 38 comments
20.		On Swift’s array semantics (yinwang0.wordpress.com)
		89 points by joeyespo on July 13, 2014 \| 63 comments
21.		Mutable Algorithms in Immutable Languages, Part 2 (tel.github.io)
		91 points by tel on July 13, 2014 \| 3 comments
22.		The Data of Hate (nytimes.com)
		90 points by _pius on July 13, 2014 \| 112 comments
23.		Microsoft’s New CEO Needs An Editor (mondaynote.com)
		83 points by arseniclifeform on July 13, 2014 \| 26 comments
24.		Python Reference – a collection of tutorials and other useful things (github.com/rasbt)
		84 points by rasbt on July 13, 2014 \| 2 comments
25.		Interactive scientific computing: Goldilocks languages (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
		82 points by mbauman on July 13, 2014 \| 20 comments
26.		All Children Should Be Delinquents (nytimes.com)
		73 points by jmgrosen on July 13, 2014 \| 75 comments
27.		We think Germany will win. But don’t take our word for it (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		71 points by jervisfm on July 13, 2014 \| 5 comments
28.		Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: Import Foreign Schema (otacoo.com)
		64 points by turrini on July 13, 2014 \| 10 comments
29.		A ToC of the 20-part linker essay (2008) (lwn.net)
		64 points by _qc3o on July 13, 2014 \| 23 comments
30.		Disruption? Not if you are making the same people rich (thenextweb.com)
		66 points by sgy on July 13, 2014 \| 21 comments
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